ALL THE PRESIDENT'S SCANDALS
Vince Foster haunts Hillary?
Independent counsel trying to retrieve files
from late White House lawyer's hard drive
By Paul Sperry
� 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- Agents for Independent Counsel
Robert Ray have secured late White House lawyer
Vincent Foster's computer hard drive and are trying to
recover files from it, WorldNetDaily has learned.
They're also interested in the White House back-up tapes
of Foster's C: drive, sources say.
Foster worked closely with first lady Hillary Clinton, his
former Arkansas law partner, and was dealing with
Travelgate and the first couple's Whitewater tax returns
before he died suddenly in 1993.
Sources familiar with the independent counsel's ongoing
investigation into Whitewater -- including the frantic,
late-night search of Foster's West Wing office after his
untimely death -- say prosecutors are working with FBI
computer-forensics experts to retrieve data from Foster's
hard drive.
Prosecutors also are asking White House witnesses about
back-up tapes to Foster's hard drive, sources say.
A prosecutor in Ray's office confirmed that the Foster
case is still open as part of the overall Whitewater
investigation.
"That particular matter was a part of the
Whitewater-Madison Guarantee (Savings & Loan
Association) jurisdiction," the prosecutor, who asked not to
be named, told WorldNetDaily. "And we have not filed a
final report in that matter."
Former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr closed the
investigation into Foster's death, ruling it a suicide. He
concluded Foster shot himself in the head on July 20, 1993,
in Fort Marcy Park, using an antique Colt pistol he'd
concealed in an oven mitt. Starr ruled out foul play,
although a bullet was never found at the scene.
According to well-placed sources who insisted on
anonymity, prosecutors did not recover Foster's hard drive
from the White House.
The White House originally stored Foster's computer in the
West Wing, but then moved it to the New Executive
Office Building.
At least the external hardware is still there in a storage
area, wrapped in plastic. It's labeled, with three-inch
letters, "FOSTER'S PC," according to sources who have
seen it.
At some point, Foster's hard drive was removed.
James MacDonald, a Bush appointee who headed White
House computer operations, kept it in his office, sources
say. Before he was replaced in 1996, he gave it to another
White House official, who kept it in his office for awhile.
He has also left the White House.
Sources say West Wing political appointees such as Patsy
Thomasson and Marsha Scott were not aware that
Foster's hard drive was floating around at the New
Executive Office Building, which is across Pennsylvania
Avenue from the White House.
It's not clear if the Foster hard drive in the possession of
Ray's office has been erased or wiped clean. If it has been
erased or reformatted, experts in computer evidence, using
special software and hardware, can still recover data from
it.
But wiping a hard disk, which involves running a software
process that writes a series of 0s and 1s over characters in
text files, renders it unreadable.
It's also not clear if prosecutors have all or just part of
Foster's hard drive. But they'll know soon enough if they
have fragmented data.
Officials who knew Foster have said in the past that he
preferred writing notes and memos by hand and was not
known to use his computer much for word processing.
Whether he used it for spreadsheets or other tasks is
another question.
Also interested in Foster's hard-drive tapes is U.S. District
Judge Royce Lamberth.
Earlier this month, he ordered the White House to search
them for information relevant to the Cara Leslie
Alexander, or "Filegate," class-action suit against Hillary
Clinton and other White House officials. The FBI also is a
defendant.
"The EOP (Executive Office of the President) shall search
the archived C: drives of the following individuals: William
Kennedy, Vincent Foster, Linda Tripp, Betsy Pond and
Deborah Gorham," Lamberth ordered.
He OK'd the following search terms for Foster's tape:
"Background report," "summary report," "OPS (Office of
Personnel Security)," "(Billy) Dale," "(Anthony) Marceca,"
"update project," "personnel security," "FBI data," "FBI
raw data," "FBI reports," "FBI summaries," "FBI
background," "FBI files," "(Dennis) Sculimbrene," "James
Baker," "Marlin Fitzwater," "BI," "Privacy Act" or
"Brasseux."
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